Has a controversy made you discover / want to buy a game?

[SilverBullets000]

I did not know Dragon's Crown existed before everyone went bananas over the game's art direction (and/or its depiction of women). While I don't have the game yet, I think I've seen enough of it to make inferences about it....but I'm going to leave my views of the debacle out since that will only devolve into chaos.

Regardless of my above-mentioned-mystery-opinions, the game-play looks like fun. I'm actually rather thankful that it garnered so much attention, otherwise I would not have found out about it. It's now on my back list of games to get when I acquire the necessary funding, right behind the Wonderful 101.

So, escapists, I ask thee: Has a controversy ever brought a title to light you would have otherwise not known about? Has it made you actually want to buy the title as a result, or did it turn you away?

[sub]Captcha: Kick the can. Not sure if it's an omen for my first thread or if it's telling me that this topic has been done to death.[/sub]

 

[BathorysGraveland2]

Mass Effect. I learned of Mass Effect because of the whole backlash concerning 3's ending. That made me interested in the game and eventually led me to buying the trilogy and playing through it.

 

[Parasondox]

Mass Effect. I learned of Mass Effect because of the whole backlash concerning 3's ending. That made me interested in the game and eventually led me to buying the trilogy and playing through it.

Same thing with me and wanted to know what all the hype was about and if people were right or over reacting so I downloaded ME1 and brought the ME2 and ME3 disk which is a lot cheaper overall than downloading the trilogy for £54.99.

 

[Lieju]

I think that happened with Dragon Age...

Although I might have played it anyway.
I remember hearing about Dragon's Crown before all the controversy, and had little interest in it. And I still don't find it interesting.

There are games I played because of the 'so bad it's good' quality, like 'Pokemon Vietnamese Crystal', but I don't think that's the same thing.

Ah, yes, Duke Nukem Forever. Although had it been good I would have heard of it and played it because of that, so does it count?

EDIT: Of course, back in the day, Mortal Kombat and Grand Theft Auto were games I heard about because of controversies.

 

[piinyouri]

Discover, yes. Play, very very rarely.

First time I remember finding about a game through it's controversy was Thrill Kill.

 

[Danceofmasks]

Err .. I own a hella lot of games, so I usually already have any controversial title.
One that I don't own ... Doki Doki Majo Shinpan, I guess ... though I really don't have any interest in feeling up high school girls on the Nintendo DS.

 

[ScrabbitRabbit]

Discover, yes. Play, very very rarely.

First time I remember finding about a game through it's controversy was Thrill Kill.

The controversy made me really want to play that when I was younger, but it was never officially released :[ Luckily it leaked onto the internet, though. It's pretty fun for a little while, but it gets a bit old.

Didn't someone end up making a Wu-Tang Clan game that basically recycled the gameplay, too?

 

[SonicWaffle]

So, escapists, I ask thee: Has a controversy ever brought a title to light you would have otherwise not known about? Has it made you actually want to buy the title as a result, or did it turn you away?

I may hear about the controversy, but only if the game actually looks fun or interesting will I pay to play it. It's not like a movie where I'll drop a quid or two in a bargain bin to see if something is really as bad as I've heard - games tend to be a lot more expensive and time-consuming, so if something looks like it isn't worth the bother then I'll skip it, however many people on the internet it has managed to upset.

 

[Random Argument Man]

The way that Team Bondi was treated during the whole development of L.A Noire made me buy the game. I once had a really shitty boss, but those guys had it worst.

 

[GundamSentinel]

Dante's Inferno. Never heard of it before and I bought it to see what all the fuss surrounding its release was about. I still think it was a pretty decent, fun game.

 

[piinyouri]

Discover, yes. Play, very very rarely.

First time I remember finding about a game through it's controversy was Thrill Kill.

The controversy made me really want to play that when I was younger, but it was never officially released :[ Luckily it leaked onto the internet, though. It's pretty fun for a little while, but it gets a bit old.

Didn't someone end up making a Wu-Tang Clan game that basically recycled the gameplay, too?

Wasn't it (TK) kind of like a bloodier gorey-er version of Power Stone? Or something like it?
Or was it a more traditional fighter?

HOLY SHIT that Wu-Tang game...I still remember the ads in game mags from back in the day.

Someone next to me is telling me it's shit though.

 

[madarrao]

Mass effect 1 because of the sex-simulator scandal...

 

[Griffolion]

The ME3 ending controversy made me want to complete number 1, and then get 2 and 3. They are all great.

 

[Something Amyss]

Mass Effect. I learned of Mass Effect because of the whole backlash concerning 3's ending. That made me interested in the game and eventually led me to buying the trilogy and playing through it.

Really? You missed 3-4 good controversies.

But speaking of Mass Effect, I would have passed on ME1 had the controversies not led to so much footage playing. For people complaining about sexual content, they spent a lot of time showing people blowing shit up and it looked...Fun.

 

[spartandude]

Game Dev Tycoon with the whole piracy thing they did where the devs put up a pirated version but in that version you couldnt win

 

[Mid Boss]

Yep!

Game Dev Tycoon!

There was that controversy where the developer had released torrents of sabotaged copies of the game. Anyone who pirated had their business in the game ruined by pirates.

It was so deliciously snarky and poetic that I went straight to his page and bought the game.

The best part was people would go onto the forums and complain about the pirating ruining their companies. Because, when you steal a game, it better be fucking working am I right? Then would try to claim they hadn't pirated it when people accused them. Some of them vanished while others would try to same old pirating defense of "Well it's a digital copy of a game! I didn't steal anything!" After humiliating themselves for a while with that logical fallacy, they too would slink off.

 

[Rariow]

First time I heard of BioShock Infinite was a thread on some forum complaining about how "It's not really BioShock if it's not in Rapture". Admittedly, that was a couple years before it came out, and chances are I would've found out about it anyway, but that thread with some absolutely stunning early screenshots of the game was pretty much the moment when I decided to keep myself absolutely in the dark about it to buy it when it came out.

Speaking of BioShock, the reason I found out about the original was people complaining about the DRM on it. Admittedly, that did put me off from buying it until the install limit was eventually removed.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I was a big fan of Vanillaware Ltd. before the bullshit controversy blew over. I wanted to play it because it was from devs I really liked in the past. Anyways, sure, I've discovered games because of the controversy surrounding them, but I'd never buy a game just because it was controversial.